Henry Cavill’s Warhammer 40K cinematic universe signs on the line with Amazon and he’s over the moon: ‘A fantastic place to start’

Games Workshop has announced that a deal has been signed with Amazon on the “creative guidelines” for a future set of films and television series based on the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The company had first announced it was talking to Amazon in December 2023, setting a 12-month period for the negotiations, so it looks like…

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AMD’s flagship Strix Halo APU makes its Geekbench debut with a monstrous name and RTX 4060 levels of GPU compute

We’ve been writing about Strix Halo for so long, without actually seeing any working hardware, that you’d be forgiven for believing that it’s just vapourware. But with the first appearance of AMD’s flagship laptop APU in the Geekbench database, we finally have some numbers to pore over. And a decidedly cumbersome name. The moniker in…

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Best Sorceress starter build in Path of Exile 2

The best Sorceress build for the early game in Path of Exile 2 is one that makes use of frost, fire, and lightning abilities, combining all of those effects to deal as much damage as possible. Lacking inherent defensive strength, the Sorceress needs to deal plenty of damage, have good evasion and energy shield stats,…

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Humble has brought back its ultra-meaty RPG bundle with Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader and its 2,000+ ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ recent Steam reviews, plus OG Baldur’s Gate and Pathfinder

Good news! I’ve found something for you to do this December. It’s, uh, the same thing I found for you to do in September. Humble has brought back its CRPG megabundle of Owlcat and Beamdog games, offering up over 650 hours of crunchy, stat-based antics across eight banger RPGs. I could, probably, just repaste the…

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Google’s WIllow chip is a big leap towards usable quantum computing but its claim of beating a classical computer by a ‘septillion years’ is meaningless

Quantum computers might seem like a work of science fiction but they really do exist. While they’re still a long way from being used for the purposes for which they’re best suited, Google’s quantum computing research lab has published results on its latest chip that show the future isn’t as distant as you’d think. The…

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China launches an antitrust investigation into Nvidia as it wrestles with the US over AI chip sanctions

China has launched an antitrust investigation into Nvidia over possible violations of the country’s anti-monopoly laws in connection with its 2020 acquisition of Israeli chip maker Mellanox Technologies. A Bloomberg report (via The Verge) says the Chinese government approved the $7 billion deal on the condition that Nvidia not discriminate against Chinese companies, and that…

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First it was Counter-Strike, now it’s GTA RP: Fortnite unveils LEGO Fortnite Brick Life, a ‘social roleplay experience in the Lego Fortnite world’

Just two days after revealing Ballistic, an upcoming 5v5 round-based tactical FPS “experience” that sure as hell looks a lot like Counter-Strike, Fortnite is continuing its brazen campaign to become every other videogame all at once. Today, Epic announced Lego Fortnite Brick Life, a “social roleplay experience in the Lego Fortnite world.” Set in “an…

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